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There'd be a lot less animals in the world if everyone was vegan. amirite?
by Anonymous3 years ago
Some land that is used for livestock farming would have more (and especially more diverse) animals in them though...
by Anonymous3 years ago
Probably not more (though more biodiversity is a given). The free market is bad at many things, but it's GREAT at maximizing production (and by extension profit) per amount of land
by Anonymous3 years ago
Between rodents and birds it's entirely possible there would be more animals
by Anonymous3 years ago
Insects alone would win the quantity calc
by Anonymous3 years ago
I dont know man. A pig farm will cram them in like 5 square feet or so apiece. That's going to be pretty damn hard for anything but insects to match.
by Anonymous3 years ago
I don't see how, near me is a field of cows and it's regularly filled with birds but a nearby arable farm has bird scorers that keep out birds and probably a few other animals. If every farm becomes and arable farm farmers will be doing all they can to keep pests out but in livestock farming as long as their is grass it doesn't matter what other animals share the fields (unless it's badgers of course as farmers are massive anti-vaxxers).
by Anonymous3 years ago
I think it's because we'd need less land to grow the crops needed to feed the population. For example, about 75% of current soy production is to feed livestock.
by Anonymous3 years ago
provided the land wasn't used for something else, yea
by Anonymous3 years ago
Food would be a lot cheaper and significantly more plentiful
by Anonymous3 years ago
Humans account for 36% of the biomass of mammals on Earth.
Livestock account for 60% of the biomass of mammals on Earth.
Wildlife accounts for 4% of the biomass of mammals on Earth.
With less livestock there would probably be more wild animals.
by Anonymous3 years ago
Yea but the increase in wild animals probably wouldn't match the decrease in livestock considering it's 60% of the worlds biomass
by Anonymous3 years ago
That biomass has to go somewhere. If it's not into wild mammals it'll be wild birds, insect, reptiles...
by Anonymous3 years ago
no, theres just less total biomass
yes, percentage wise it would be more wildlife, but it wouldnt actually be more
by Anonymous3 years ago
There'd be a lot less farmed animals, and thus a lot, lot more wild animals - enough to fill a space the size of Australia, US, EU and China combined apparently.
by Anonymous3 years ago
Buuuut definitely fewer total animals. There's no way nature can compete with the sheer number of bodies a ranch can shove into a shed
by Anonymous3 years ago
Fewer
by Anonymous3 years ago
Calm down there, Stannis.
by Anonymous3 years ago
the world is more beautiful without human too
by Anonymous3 years ago
Fewer, not less.
by Anonymous3 years ago
What would we do with all of the cows, pigs , chickens etc if everyone went vegan?
by Anonymous3 years ago
What do you think happens to them now? If the world went vegan we wouldn't be breeding more into existence. They don't produce children by chance. We artificially inseminate them when we want to eat more.
by Anonymous3 years ago
So, we would control their population by breeding. Why would someone take care of them? Would we turn them lose into nature?
by Anonymous3 years ago
Exactly, they wouldn't be bvred for food so they'd have to live wild in much smaller numbers.
by Anonymous3 years ago
There would be issues, such as over farming of certain crops
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